It takes time to become proficient at test driven development.
But it's worth the investment. I'm not convinced it makes writing
code faster because, after all, it does require you to write more
code for the unit tests. However, I am convinced it makes writing
production-ready code faster.
Coupled with continuous integration, TDD shortens the overall
software development lifecycle because it absorbs the explicit
non-coding phases of waterfall software development and makes them
an implicit part of writing code. Through refactoring, analysis and
design are unified to become a low-level, recurring activity, which
also keeps code tidy and self-documenting. Writing unit tests
first, helps design testability into the code, while maintaining a
high test coverage helps locate and fix defects quickly and reduce
the number of implementation defects.
Thursday, 8 December 2005
Write production-ready code faster with TDD
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